[Amended 5-10-1990 by Ord. No. 1990-4; 7-25-2000 by Ord. No.
2000-2]
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the terms
as set forth in this article shall, for the purpose of the chapter,
have the meanings indicated. Words in the singular include the plural,
and words in the plural include the singular. The word "person" includes
a corporation, unincorporated association and a partnership as well
as an individual. The word "building" shall be construed as if followed
by the words "or part thereof." The word "watercourse" includes "drain,"
"ditch" and "stream." The words "shall" and "will" are mandatory;
the word "may" is permissive.
Any person, other than the developer, who, acting for the
developer, submits to the Borough Council subdivision or land development
plans for the purpose of obtaining approval thereof.
A landowner or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has
filed an application for development, including his heirs, successors
and assigns.
An area bounded by three or more streets.
A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, duly appointed as the Engineer for the Borough.
A line parallel to and the distance from a public or private street as specified in Chapter 380, Zoning, which determines the location of a future building or structure.
The surface of a street or alley available for vehicular
traffic.
A right-of-way, municipally or privately owned, intended
to furnish access for pedestrians.
Any landowner, agent of such landowner or tenant with the
permission of such landowner who makes or causes to be made a subdivision
of land or a land development.
A lot with front and rear street frontage.
Any ditch, gutter, pipe, culvert, storm sewer or other structure
designed, intended or constructed for the purpose of diverting surface
waters from or carrying surface waters off streets, public rights-of-way,
parks, recreational areas or any other part of any subdivision, land
development or contiguous land areas.
A right-of-way granted for limited use of the land for public
or quasi-public purpose.
Those physical additions and changes to the land that may
be necessary to produce usable and desirable developments.
Any of the following activities:
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous
lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential
buildings, whether proposed initially or cumulatively, or a single
nonresidential building on a lot or lots, regardless of the number
of occupants or tenure.
The division or allocation of land or space,
whether initially or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing
or prospective occupants by means of or for the purpose of streets,
common areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features.
A subdivision of land.
Development in accordance with Section 503(1.1)
of the Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10503(1.1).
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such
option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if he is
authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner,
or other person having a proprietary interest in land.
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by
a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed
or built upon as a unit.
The area contained within the property lines of the individual
parcels of land and the existing right-of-way, including the area
of any easement. Minimum lot area is the same area as lot area, but
it excludes all area within the ultimate right-of-way of a street.
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, office or place of assembly contained in one unit, or in
two units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of
again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site
complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking
and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may be used without
a permanent foundation.
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erection thereon of a single mobile home.
A parcel, or contiguous parcels, of land which has been so
designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots
for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
A complete and exact subdivision or land development plan,
prepared for official recording as required by statute, to define
property rights, proposed streets and other public improvements.
A tentative subdivision or land development plan, in lesser
detail than the final plan, indicating the approximate proposed layout
of the area to be subdivided and/or developed as a basis for consideration
prior to preparation of the final plan.
A lot extending between and having frontage on an arterial
street and on a local street and with vehicular access solely from
the latter.
A street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway,
lane, alley, viaduct and any other strip of land, including the entire
right-of-way used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians,
whether public or private.
ARTERIAL STREETA street whose primary function is to serve comparatively high volumes of through traffic at speeds higher than desirable on collector and local streets.
COLLECTOR STREETA street which, in addition to providing access to abutting properties, collects traffic from the local street system.
LOCAL STREET (LOCAL ACCESS ROAD)A street used primarily to provide access to abutting properties.
CUL-DE-SACA street intersecting another street at one end and terminating at the other in a vehicular turnaround.
MARGINAL-ACCESS STREETA street parallel and adjacent to an arterial street, providing access to abutting properties and control of intersections with collector or arterial streets.
SERVICE DRIVEA street primarily for service access to the back and sides of properties.
STREET— Any local street which does not intersect with a through street at two separate and distinct locations. A P-street includes a street which intersects with a through street, extends and then loops back upon itself in roughly the shape of a P or a street which intersects with one or more other streets, all of which are either cul-de-sac streets or streets which merge through various intersections to all be served by a single connection with a through street.
THROUGH STREETA street which has at least two intersections with one or more streets which are not cul-de-sac streets or P-streets. A street which intersects with streets which, individually or through intersections with other such streets to create a traffic system, share a single point of access serving all of the interconnected streets is not a through street. A graphic representation of through streets, culs-de-sac and P-streets is as follows:
1 = Through street.
2 = Cul-de-sac street.
3 = P-street.
B = Beginning point to measure the length of a cul-de-sac or P-street. (NOTE: See § 325-26E for further information on beginning and ending points for the measurement of length of cul-de-sac streets and P-streets.)
E = Ending point to measure the length of a cul-de-sac or P-street. (NOTE: See § 325-26E for further information on beginning and ending points for the measurement of length of cul-de-sac streets and P-streets.)
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Those streets not offered for dedication.
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land
by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions
of land, including changes in existing lot lines, for the purpose,
whether immediate or future, of lease, partition by the court for
distribution to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership, or building
or lot development; provided, however, that the subdivision by lease
of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres,
not involving any new street or easement of access of any residential
dwelling, shall be exempted.
